The Wrath of Cochise: The Bascom Affair and the Origins of the Apache Wars
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In February 1861, the twelve-year-old son of Arizona rancher John Ward was kidnapped by Apaches....
Wind, Sand and Stars
Antoine de Saint-Exupery and William Rees
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Both a gripping tale of adventure and a poetic meditation, Antoine de Saint Exupery's Wind, Sand and...
Task Force Patriot and the End of Combat Operations in Iraq
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Iraq in 2009 was a strange netherworld, not quite war but not yet peace. The country teetered on the...
The Audacious Crimes of Colonel Blood: The Spy Who Stole the Crown Jewels and Became the King's Secret Agent
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One morning in May 1671, Colonel Thomas Blood daringly attempted to seize the Crown Jewels from the...
Becoming Richard Pryor
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A major biography-intimate, gripping, revelatory-of an artist who revolutionized American comedy....
Dead Men Risen: The Welsh Guards and the Defining Story of Britain's War in Afghanistan
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WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE 2012. This is the gripping story of the men of the Welsh Guards and their...
Devils on Horses: In the Words of the Anzacs in the Middle East 1916-19
Terry Kinloch and Christopher Pugsley
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Reunited with their horses in Egypt after the shattering experience of Gallipoli (a story recounted...
King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era
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When it was first published in 1994, King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and his Era was widely heralded...
No Picnic on Mount Kenya
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A rediscovered mountaineering classic and the extraordinary true story of a daring escape up Mount...
Money, Blood and Revolution: How Darwin and the Doctor of King Charles I Could Turn Economics into a Science
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Economics is a broken science, living in a kind of Alice in Wonderland state believing in multiple,...